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say no, texas. >> no! >> zack kopplin was chosen to receive the first "troublemaker" of the year award because he's made waves fighting on behalf of science and against laws making it easier to teach creationism in public schools. today's fundamentalists, with political support from the right wing, are more aggressive than ever in crusading to challenge evolution with the dogma of creationism. but they didn't reckon on zack kopplin. starting at the grass roots in his home state of louisiana, he's become a formidable adversary nationally, speaking, debating, button-holing politicians, and winning the active support of nobel laureates, the american association for the advancement of science, the new orleans city council, and tens of thousands of students, teachers and others around the country who have signed on to his campaign. troublemakers all. zack is now 19 and a history major at rice university in houston. he's with me now. welcome to the show. >> thank you so much for having me on. >> what was it abou
say no, texas. >> no! >> zack kopplin was chosen to receive the first "troublemaker" of the year award because he's made waves fighting on behalf of science and against laws making it easier to teach creationism in public schools. today's fundamentalists, with political support from the right wing, are more aggressive than ever in crusading to challenge evolution with the dogma of creationism. but they didn't reckon on zack kopplin. starting at the grass roots in his home...
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but there was a married couple that wanted to challenge the texas law that criminalized abortion, and they appeared as john and mary dough. and they said, look, mary doe has a health condition that if she becomes pregnant and it continues forward, she might die. and this is very bad for her. there's no 100% safe contraceptive. so if we don't have the possibility of legal abortion, it not only risks her health, but it interferes in, i think they called it, "their marital happiness." and interestingly enough, the supreme court threw them out of the case. they said, you don't have standing. your interest in marital happiness is too distant from what we're talking about here. and which, i think means that in 1973, the supreme court hadn't accepted heterosexuality. but what they really did, too, which i think is a shame, is they really had -- i wonder if they had kept that couple in, whether men's role in pregnancy and the outcomes of the intercourse would've played a much healthier and more honest role. every pregnancy has had a man involved. we live in a country where women are blamed fo
but there was a married couple that wanted to challenge the texas law that criminalized abortion, and they appeared as john and mary dough. and they said, look, mary doe has a health condition that if she becomes pregnant and it continues forward, she might die. and this is very bad for her. there's no 100% safe contraceptive. so if we don't have the possibility of legal abortion, it not only risks her health, but it interferes in, i think they called it, "their marital happiness."...
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i have a feeling i wouldn't get very far in texas with this argument. but -- >> you might get into the state, but not out. >> i wouldn't get into the state -- but this is the point though, is that web du bois wrote about this a hundred years ago, about the way that he felt like football was distorting, or as he put it, king football was distorting the atmosphere at yale university. and it's actually quaint what he wrote. he said, "the football budget is seven times the classics budget." and it's like, well, just seven times, my goodness. and so you fast forward to today, i would want the nfl with all of its billions to pony up for its own minor league. i would want the nba to do the same. because it really shouldn't shock us that sports that draw the most heavily on people of color, are also the sports that put them in a completely disempowered position, where they're training for these professional leagues without getting a dime in their pocket. so if we could delink them, i absolutely would. we're not going to. i get how deep this is in the vein of th
i have a feeling i wouldn't get very far in texas with this argument. but -- >> you might get into the state, but not out. >> i wouldn't get into the state -- but this is the point though, is that web du bois wrote about this a hundred years ago, about the way that he felt like football was distorting, or as he put it, king football was distorting the atmosphere at yale university. and it's actually quaint what he wrote. he said, "the football budget is seven times the classics...
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my native state of texas leads the country in the number of young ones killed by guns. while some states passed tougher firearms legislation after newtown, texas enacted ten new laws against sane restrictions on guns. which is partly why last month, four women had lunch at a restaurant just outside dallas. it was a planning meeting for moms demand action for gun sense in america, that's a group started after newtown that describes itself as the "mothers against drunk driving of gun reform." as the four women ate and talked, about 40 members of a pro-gun group called open carry texas -- champions of guns anywhere and everywhere -- gathered outside the restaurant, many of them with their firearms. they said they were there not to intimidate but to make a point. sure, as if real men need guns to make a point. so it goes. "thou shalt not kill," but if you do, hide behind the second amendment, made holier and more sacrosanct by the nra than god's own commandment. we close with a simple public service announcement, produced by the very un-intimidated moms demand action, marki
my native state of texas leads the country in the number of young ones killed by guns. while some states passed tougher firearms legislation after newtown, texas enacted ten new laws against sane restrictions on guns. which is partly why last month, four women had lunch at a restaurant just outside dallas. it was a planning meeting for moms demand action for gun sense in america, that's a group started after newtown that describes itself as the "mothers against drunk driving of gun...
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there is a white group in beaumont, texas, just waiting for this supreme court decision because they want to overthrow the black majority that runs the school board. so you're saying, i think you're saying, a lot of mischief can be done now that would have been disqualified by the voting rights provision. >> absolutely. you know, chief justice warren, when the court first ruled on the constitutionality of the voting rights act in 1966, said that the bill had been designed to eliminate the most egregious of difficulties. but it was also written to cover subtle devices. and here, i think, is an example of subtle and quite harmful devices. we're still very polarized racially. sometimes it's wrong just to focus on the fact that we have so many african-americans in office, including a president. in the oral arguments chief justice roberts said, you know, well, you're saying that alabama is more prejudiced than massachusetts. and the evidence indicates that yes, it still is. >> the majority on the court struck down the provision that requires the states to get federal approval before makin
there is a white group in beaumont, texas, just waiting for this supreme court decision because they want to overthrow the black majority that runs the school board. so you're saying, i think you're saying, a lot of mischief can be done now that would have been disqualified by the voting rights provision. >> absolutely. you know, chief justice warren, when the court first ruled on the constitutionality of the voting rights act in 1966, said that the bill had been designed to eliminate the...
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think of the explosion of perhaps as much as half a million pounds of ammonium nitrate in that texas fertilizer plant. people can die when government winks at bad corporate practices. as long as there are insufficient checks and balances on big business and its powerful lobbies, you and i are at their mercy. which is why their ability to buy off public officials is an assault on democracy and a threat to our lives and health. keep that in mind as i introduce you to david rosner and gerald markowitz. some years ago, their book, "deceit and denial," told how the chemical industry tried to conceal the truth about untested and unregulated chemicals in our food, water, and air. 20 companies responded with a vicious campaign to smear their reputations. that proved hard to do, actually, impossible. gerald markowitz is a distinguished professor of history at both john jay college of criminal justice and the city university of new york's graduate center. david rosner is co-director of the center for the history and ethics of public health at columbia university where he also teaches science a
think of the explosion of perhaps as much as half a million pounds of ammonium nitrate in that texas fertilizer plant. people can die when government winks at bad corporate practices. as long as there are insufficient checks and balances on big business and its powerful lobbies, you and i are at their mercy. which is why their ability to buy off public officials is an assault on democracy and a threat to our lives and health. keep that in mind as i introduce you to david rosner and gerald...
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wendy davis, a state senator from texas, stood up -- in a filibuster and became a cultural hero in texas. and she -- >> yes, but the next week the state legislature, controlled by republicans, went on and did what they would've done if she hadn't filibustered. they lost anyway despite her hero -- admittedly heroic stand and national attention, she still lost -- >> but that's how movements happen, bill. bill, they don't happen overnight. they happen -- >> but in the meantime politics, electoral politics are the frustrating barrier to the change you're describing. >> i agree. and it's going to take a while for that breakthrough to happen. but i think we're seeing here in new york, the bastion of wall street, the bastion of rudy giuliani and michael bloomberg, who presided over 20 years of widening inequality, gentrification, and the destruction of the middle class in new york, you now have a champion of working people, bill de blasio who's going to be the next mayor of new york. and things like that are happening in other states. in california, governor brown passed -- just signed a bill t
wendy davis, a state senator from texas, stood up -- in a filibuster and became a cultural hero in texas. and she -- >> yes, but the next week the state legislature, controlled by republicans, went on and did what they would've done if she hadn't filibustered. they lost anyway despite her hero -- admittedly heroic stand and national attention, she still lost -- >> but that's how movements happen, bill. bill, they don't happen overnight. they happen -- >> but in the meantime...
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in fact, we've just seen in texas in the past year two million head of cow, cattle are no longer in texas, they had to move them out because they couldn't provide the food and forage and water for them because of that drought. that's not freedom, okay? you are literally not able to do the thing that you were raised and that you believe in as part of your culture because the climate has changed. >> you got me on that one. what's another one? >> another side, though, is the opportunity side. first of all, political opportunity which is perhaps the language that most touches them directly, and that is that they've now lost two national elections, okay? and that hurts. i'm sure it hurts. they need to find a new way back to the middle of this country, okay? now, there's an active debate happening within the republican party right now between, perhaps our problem is that we weren't pure enough, okay? i mean, we hear those voices on the right who were saying, you know, mitt romney was really just a liberal in disguise, that we didn't make a stark enough choice, and that we need purificati purifi
in fact, we've just seen in texas in the past year two million head of cow, cattle are no longer in texas, they had to move them out because they couldn't provide the food and forage and water for them because of that drought. that's not freedom, okay? you are literally not able to do the thing that you were raised and that you believe in as part of your culture because the climate has changed. >> you got me on that one. what's another one? >> another side, though, is the...